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2. When someone...
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 04:16 PM
Jan 2020

When someone is behaving that way, regardless of whether it is drug-induced or a mental breakdown, that goes over a line that is rather pathetic rather than a source of amusement or even an oddity.

I am not trying to rain on that parade, but it saddens me when people "falling down" are pointed out in that way. You have to be very messed up and down the tubes to get to that point and I don't judge people for it. In the case of drug use, I guess it depends on if you see it as a moral failing, (in what ever sense) or an illness of sorts.

I have had friends who were bi-polar and, in extreme manic phases, they could publicly act-out behaviors along the same lines. That is tragic and deserves understanding.

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